IUTAM Symposium on Impact Biomechanics: From Fundamental Insights to Applications

Session 1.- The Contribution of Accident Investigation Research to Biomechanics.- Modeling the Effects of Blast on the Human Thorax Using High Strain Rate Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tissue.- Preliminary Analysis of Blunt Ballistic Impacts to the Abdomen.- Development of an Assessment Methodology for Lower Leg Injuries Resulting from Anti-Vehicular Blast Landmines.- Occupant Lower Leg Injury Assessment in Landmine Detonations under a Vehicle.- The Simulated Response of Cortical and Cancellous Bone to Various Rates of Loading — A Preliminary Numerical Study.- Session 2.- Multibody Dynamics Approaches for Biomechanical Modeling in Human Impact Applications.- Reconstructing Real Life Accidents Towards Establishing Criteria for Traumatic Head Impact Injuries.- Combined Multi-Body Dynamic and FE Models of Human Head and Neck.- Three Years Old Child Neck Finite Element Modelisation.- Response Analysis of Lumbar Vertebra Model under Axial Impact Loading.- Session 3.- Head Impact Biomechanics in Sport.- Biofidelity of Dummy and FEM Necks in the Frequency Domain.- Influence of Helmet Inertial Properties on Neck Injury Risk During Ejection: A Numerical Human Model Approach.- Quasi-Analytic Acceleration Injury Risk Functions: Application to Car Occupant Risk in Frontal Collisions.- Modelling of Frontal Collisions from Onboard Recorder and Full Width Barrier Data.- Accidents of Motorcyclists Against Roadside Infrastructure.- Session 4.- Biomechanical Aspects of Blunt and Penentrating Head Injuries.- Biomechanics of Frontal Skull Fracture.- Numerical Modeling of the Human Head under Impact: New Injury Mechanisms and Tolerance Limits.- Mechanisms and Tolerance Curves of Traumatic Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI).- Sensory Disorders of the Auditory and Vestibular Systems FollowingBlunt Head Trauma.- Biomechanical, Radiographic and Osteologic Observations of Lower Cervical Spine Injuries.- Session 5.- Impact Injury in Sport.- Clinical and Biomechanical Research for Bicycle Helmet Optimisation.- Application of Finite Element Analysis to Helmet Design.- Finite Element Modeling for the Prediction of Blast Trauma.- Evaluation of Human Head Injury in Tracked Vehicle Subjected to Mine Blast.- Finite Volume Solution to High Rate Wave Propagation Through a Lung Alveoli Stack.- Session 6.- Cellular Basis for the Nonlinear Constitutive Properties of Brain Tissue.- Cerebral Bridging Vein Rupture in Humans.- Three Dimensional Passive Properties of Muscle Tissue in Compression.- A National Review of Surgically Treated Blunt Traumatic Thoracic Aortic Transections.- Lack of Consistency in Threat to Life from Single Injury Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) 4 Codes in Different Body Areas.- Session 7.- Mechanical Factors in Osteoarthrosis.- The Initial Assessment and Management of Blunt Trauma.- Bioengineering and Orthopaedic Surgery in Practice.- The Impact Biomechanics of Spinal Column Injuries.- Brain Oedema and Intracranial Pressure.- Traumatic Brain Injury.- A Selective Depolarisation-Induced Increase in Excitatory Amino Acid Neurotransmitter Release in Rat Medial Prefrontal Cortex Using a Microdialysis Model of Traumatic Brain Injury.- Victims of Penetrating and Incised Wounds.- Session 8.- Computational Human Body Models.- Reconstruction of Head Injury Cases Arising from Falls Using the UCD Brain Trauma Model.- Numerical Human Model to Predict Side Impact Thoracic Trauma.- Numerical Simulation of Shoulder Response to a Lateral Impact with the HUMOS Model.- Finite Element Model of Human Skull Used for Head Injury Criteria Assessment.- A Computational Study ofthe Optic Nerve Evulsion.- An Anisotropic Viscous Hyperelastic Constitutive Model of the Posterior Cruciate Ligament Suitable for High Loading Rate Situations.